Word: meaninglessness
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...future of money." Though continually dedicated to becoming affluent, he sometimes seems unsure of how to do it. This ambiguity makes him dubious as a character who claims to be the greatest spy in history, and Mason's submission to human frailty occasionally leaves an incomplete and meaningless impression...
...under the hated "Black Act." On Sept. 11, 1906, a large meeting of Indians heard Gandhi describe the consequences of the first pledge to disobey the Black Act. Each man, he said, must be willing to undergo the fight in complete isolation, if necessary, or else the pledge is meaningless. This is one of the basic principles of Satyagraha: success depends not upon numbers but upon individual firmness. The audience responded, Satyagraha was born, and Gandhi and hundreds of others went to jail for the first time...
...flabby" overall, and blown up bolsterwise into "a roll around the midriff," the "splotchy, sallow" skin, the "dull, faded, gray, stringy" hair, the "red-rimmed, bloodshot, dark-circled" eyes, the "rough, red, chapped" hands. Questions come flooding to the smeared lips: "Do you need a deodorant?" "Do you use meaningless ejaculations like 'Oh, boy!'" "Do you have something to offer...
...father and son alike, desperately needing roots and a tangible grasp of life, struggling against the poisonous and destructive vanity of dreams. Inane, pompous, and deeply sympathetic, Gitter plays a Willy whose final grasp for something to hold in his hand still springs from an illusion, and is meaningless to all but Biff...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, espousing the liberal view on the topic "Academic Freedom: The Idea and Reality," said that Kirk, by failing to define such broad terms as "natural law," "religion," and "truth" in his book, "simply used large and essentially meaningless words" to support his views on academic freedom...